Ken Jacobs Movies

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

An eternalism.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

An Eternalism film.

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Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

A Rainy Day in New York.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.